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Hi all - open beta of a tool we created for ourselves during lockdown. We got sick of trying to replicate the effortless comms we had in the office, and hated managing a half dozen always-on Zoom/Slack/etc calls. So we built Squawk.

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Are you planning to open-source this? Will it become a paid product? Is it P2P or are you hosting it?

We're not planning to open source it. Some features down the road will become paid but the free version will always contain at the very least what you see today.

The heavy lifting is done P2P falling back to our TURN servers if NAT traversal is necessary.

That's good to know; you should put that information on the web site. Especially the part about the business model.

Another thing I'd like to know before considering downloading the app is system requirements. A lot of people aren't on the latest version of Windows/MacOS yet.

This seems cool. I'm curious -- did you try out TeamSpeak before building a custom tool?

I looked into TeamSpeak when searching for a multi-channel PTT tool a few weeks ago and couldn't find a way to listen to multiple channels and talk/reply to each channel individually. Does TeamSpeak support that?

I ended up having to compile from master what was a very recently merged feature to Mumble: https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/pull/4011

EDIT: typo

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